A BORDON mum has criticised her son's school after he almost lost out on his college place because he was unable to access his GCSE results.

Gina Hopkins said that she contacted Hollywater School, which her son Connor attended, after he had not heard about his results.

Initially, she had thought that, as is the case with mainstream schools (Hollywater is a school for children with special needs), she would wait until the results arrived in the post. Hollywater School, in Bordon's Mill Chase Road, did not open its doors on results day because only a handful of students take GCSEs there.

But days rolled past and on the Sunday after results day, Ms Hopkins emailed the school to query the issue and was told that it did not have the information.

She was told that Connor's marks were available online and that he was to use a card, which the school said students had been supplied with, to view his GCSEs.

But Ms Hopkins said her son had not been given one and, after talking with other parents, said her son was not the only one. Because of this, Connor, who had an interview booked at South Downs College, Waterloo-ville, had to withdraw bec-ause he was unable to provide his results.

Luckily, on Monday he was allowed to go for another interview and the college said it would hold his place until he gets his grades.

"What I can not understand is why mainstream children had their GCSE results almost two weeks ago and Hollywater is still waiting," Ms Hopkins said.

Headteacher Steph Clancy said that the school did every thing it could when it real-ised that there were problems with getting results.

She said that, due to chan-ges this year, all results were digital and paper copies were not automatically sent out. "We recognise there was a problem - we misunderstood the changes as well," she said. "We apologise for the delay and the inconvenience."